Pangaea

专有名词
中文释义
发音 păn-jēʹə

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.
    — The supercontinent status of Pangaea and Rodinia is undisputed. In contrast, there is ongoing controversy on whether Pannotia existed at all.

词形变化

Pangea alternative,US Pangæa alternative,archaic

词源

From Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, “all”) + γαῖα (gaîa, “earth, land”), after German Pangäa, which was coined by Alfred Wegener in 1915. Analyzable as pan- + Gaea.
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